MHAAM LEADERSHIP TEAM
Prof. Dr. Johannes Krause
Director, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,
Director in Leipzig, MHAAM
Prof. Michael McCormick
Francis Goelet Professor of Medieval History, Harvard University
Chair, Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard
Director at Harvard, MHAAM
Prof. David Reich
Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Deputy Director, MHAAM Harvard
Prof. Dr. Philipp W. Stockhammer
Co-Director, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Professor for Prehistoric Archaeology (Eastern Mediterranean) at Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich Deputy Director, MHAAM Jena
Prof. Dr. Christina Warinner
Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University and Sally Starling Seaver Assistant Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University
Group Leader of Microbiome Sciences at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and University Professor of Biological Sciences at Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Scientific Advisory Committee:
Susan Alcock, Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan
Eszter Bánffy, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut; Romano-Germanic Commission, RGK, Frankfurt am Main
Cyprian Broodbank, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
Panagiotis Karkanas, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, The Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory
for Archaeological Science
Stephen Weiner, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
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MHAAM Research Team:
Alison Barton, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Esther Brielle, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Stefanie Eisenmann: Department of Archaeology, Ludwig-Maximilians University
Arun Durvasula: Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Michal Feldman: Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Alexander Herbig: Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Taylor Hermes, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Alex Hübner, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Iosif Lazaridis: Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Yue-Chen Li: Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Matthew Mah: Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Shop Mallick: Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Alissa Mittnik: Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Alexander More, Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard
Iñigo Olalde: BIOMICS research group, University of Basque Country
Roshan Paladugu, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Nick Patterson: Medical and Population Genetics Program, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Matthäus Rest, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Harald Ringbauer: Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Ashley Scott, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
Arie Shaus: Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Kendra Sirak, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Eirini Skourtanioti: Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Irina Velsko, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
John Walden, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
Shamam Waldman, Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Graduate Students:
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Aurora Allshouse, Harvard GSAS, Anthropology
Maxime Borry, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Keri Burge, Harvard GSAS, Anthropology
Eden Hill, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Percy Ho: Harvard GSAS, Anthropology
I-Tina Huang, Harvard GSAS, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Edan Larkin, Harvard GSAS, History
Megan Michel, Harvard GSAS, Human Evolutionary Biology
Reed Morgan, Harvard GSAS, History
Gunnar Neumann: Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Björn Reichhardt, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Nada Salem: Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Undergraduate Students:
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Sage Barnes, Harvard College '24, Government and Classics
Sophia Charles, Harvard College ‘24, History and Physics
Anika Christensen, Harvard College '26, Human Evolutionary Biology and Music
Sarah Faber, Harvard College ‘24, Anthropology
Jimena Luque, Harvard College '25, Molecular and Cellular Biology; History of Art and Architecture
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Staff:
Franziska Pfab, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Angela Mötsch: Sample Manager MHAAM, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Lisa Ransom Lubarr: Coordinator, MHAAM and Initiative for the Science of the Human Past at Harvard
Kristine Richter, Laboratory Manager, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
Raphaela Stahl, Laboratory technician, Department of Archaeogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Alumni:
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Lindsey Bouldin, Anthropology, Harvard College
Sonja Eliason, Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard College
Henry Gruber, History, Harvard University
Éadaoin Harney, Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Nour Khachemoune, Anthropology, Harvard College
Michael Isakov, Mathematics, Harvard College and Statistics, Harvard University
Sebastien Millien, Anthropology, Harvard College
John Mulhall, History, Harvard University
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